Vanellus spinosus | |
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A spur-winged lapwing in Gambia | |
Calls recorded at Lake Turkana, Kenya | |
Phân loại khoa học | |
Vực: | Eukaryota |
Giới: | Animalia |
Ngành: | Chordata |
Lớp: | Aves |
Bộ: | Charadriiformes |
Họ: | Charadriidae |
Chi: | Vanellus |
Loài: | V. spinosus
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Danh pháp hai phần | |
Vanellus spinosus (Linnaeus, 1758) | |
Các đồng nghĩa | |
Vanellus spinosus là một loài chim trong họ Charadriidae.[2]
Mr. J.M. Cook, of the celebrated tourist agency, when in Egypt in 1876, "watched one of these birds, and saw it deliberately go up to a crocodile, apparently asleep, which opened its jaws. The bird hopped in, and the crocodile closed its jaws. In what appeared to be a very short time, probably not more than a minute or two, the crocodile opened its jaws, and we saw the bird go down to the water's edge." There were several of these birds about, and Mr. Cook shot two of them, which Dr. Sclater identified as Spur-winged Plovers; so that the question as to what bird enters the mouth of the crocodile is now set at rest.